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The School of Business of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has achieved top 10 status globally for its published research output, with its international business research ranked sixth in the world and its finance research tenth in the Asia-Pacific region.

The sixth place ranks the School of Business higher than such renowned institutions as Cambridge and Harvard universities, according to a research paper entitled "International business research: Trends and school rankings". HKBU is also one of the two local universities in the first 30 on the list.

The study used 10 years of publication data (1995-2004) from four leading international business journals, namely the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review and Management International Review.

A second research paper, "Ranking of finance programmes in the Asia-Pacific region: An update", said the School ranked tenth among 170 Asia-Pacific universities for the period 2000-2004 based on research output appearing in 21 leading finance journals. The University's ranking has surged from 30 th place in 1990-1994 and 19th in 1995-1999.

Professor Simon Ho (何順文), Dean of the School of Business, is pleased with the School's outstanding achievements in academic research. "The ranking is based on the total number of publications of each university regardless of the faculty size. Both our rankings could have been higher if they were measured on a per capita basis," he said. Professor Ho proactively encourages faculty members to scale new heights in business research.

The two research papers appear in International Business Review (Issue 15, 2006:317-338) and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (Issue 13, 2005:584-600) respectively.